Advertisement
Advertisement
Hades
[ hey-deez ]
noun
- Classical Mythology.
- the underworld inhabited by departed souls.
- the god ruling the underworld; Pluto.
- (in the Revised Version of the New Testament) the abode or state of the dead.
- (often lowercase) hell.
Hades
/ ˈheɪdɪən; ˈheɪdiːz; heɪˈdiːən /
noun
- Greek myth
- the underworld abode of the souls of the dead
- Pluto, the god of the underworld, brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone
- New Testament the abode or state of the dead
- informal.often not capital hell
Hades
- The Greek and Roman god of the underworld and the ruler of the dead. Also called Dis. The underworld itself was also known to the Greeks as Hades.
Notes
Derived Forms
- Hadean, adjective
Other Word Forms
- Ჹ·· [hey-, dee, -, uh, n, hey, -dee-, uh, n], adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of Hades1
Example Sentences
It depicts Dionysus journeying to Hades to retrieve a poet who can help Athens in crisis, culminating in a contest between Aeschylus and Euripides.
She brings similarly unexpected colors to Sara in “American Primeval,” whom she likens to “a Brontë character who is suddenly forced to play death-rugby in Hades.”
Trump strikes a deal with the devil and then uses the devil’s own advice to overpower him and become the King of Hades.
Hades was escapism that told a story about escaping, an entertaining time-waster when time was all we had.
When Supergiant Games was wrapping up Hades, a mythologically rich hack-and-slash dungeon crawler it had spent more than three years developing, the studio concluded it was not quite done.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse